I could go off on one about Socialism again...

But sometimes The Onion says it so much more eloquently than I could.

Boss! De Pain! De Pain!

I’m susceptible to migraines. This has only been the case for a year or two, and they seem to be triggered by stress. This would explain why it is that I had a lot as NC, and I’ve been getting them again recently due to work being a proper pain in the bum at the moment.
Now, when people talk about ‘blinding headaches’, they aren’t kidding. One of the things that indicates a migraine is coming on is loss of vision. This takes the form of a shimmering patch, large or small, in the field of vision – it looks not unlike a patch of static from a TV tuned out of channel. Depending on how big this patch of blindness is, you can estimate how bad the headache is likely to be. The first time I had a migraine I lost the vision completely in one eye for several hours. Naturally, I panicked about this (my father went blind in one eye several years ago, and I feared the same) and ended up in hospital in a bit of a state.
On my way home from work today, I noticed I was getting one, and so I decided to keep notes on how it went and how it developed, and here they are.

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